Archaeology

In April of 2012, archaeologists with the Jamestown Rediscovery Project returned to a feature attached to one of the colony's earliest buildings. They had come across other James Fort cellars in their two decades of investigating the fort, and now their work revealed this underground L-shaped room to be a kitchen. On July 27, 2012, archaeologists working on the cellar excavation uncovered a row of what looked like human teeth. But these teeth were buried in a layer of butchered animal bones and artifacts dating to the dark days of 1609-1610 known as "the starving time."